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Publishers Chicago 



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THE THANKSGIVING 
GARDEN 



HUMOROUS COSTUME DRILL AND DANCE FOR 
EIGHT CHILDREN, FOUR BOYS AND FOUR GIRLS 



BY 

HARRIETTE WILBUR 

AUTHOR OF ''the CHRISTMAS TOY SHOP" 




BECKLEY-CARDY COMPANY 
CHICAGO 






Copyright 1922 by 
BECKLEY-CARDY COMPANY 



TMP92-007492 



PBINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 

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The Thanksgiving Garden 

This dance requires eight children, four s'irls and four 
boys, dressed to represent vegetables. 

^oys girls 

The Potato The Corn 

The Carrot The Lettuce 

The Pumpkin The Celery 

The Tomato The Spinach 



COSTUMES 

The Potato wears a clown suit of brown cambric 
with yellow dots here and there for eyes; his cap is 
a turban of the brown. 

The Carrot has a clown suit of orange cambric and 
a green cambric turban with wired streamers risin- 
from the top. 

The Pumpkin has tight green trousers reachino" to 
the ankle, and a very full blouse of yellow cambric, 
padded with tissue paper to make it stand out; his 
turban is of the orange, with a green stem rising from 
the top. 

The Tomato is dressed like the Pumpkin, with bright 
red blouse and turban. 

The Corn has a princess slip of pale yellow, with 
skirt made of narrow, scalloped ruffl'es. Over this she 
wears a cape made of long green streamers. Her turban 
is of the green. 

The Lettuce wears a princess slip of pale yellow, 

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THE THANKSGIVING GARDEN 



covered with very full, festooned ruffles of lettuce green, 
and a green witch's hat with a festooned ruffle from the 
peak. 

The Celery wears a long waisted dress of white, with 
a frill of green for the skirt. Turban of white. 

The KSpinach wears a much beruffled dress of green 
cambric, with a little cap of the same. 

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over, while the children execute their dance. Each alter- 
nate repetition is played an octave higher than written, 
in order to vary it. 

ENTRANCE : The children enter in couples, hand in 
hand: the Potato and the Corn; the Carrot with the 



THE THANKSGIVING GARDEN 5 

Lettuce; the Pumpkin with the Celery; the Tomato with 
the Spinach. They use the following step: On the 
first count, place left foot out at left side; on second 
count place left foot ahead; on third count place right 
foot beside left. They circle about once and halt in 
ci line along front. 

They then recite the following verses, the first stanza 
in unison, each line of the second and third stanzas 
singly, and the fourth in unison. 



THE VEGETABLES 

All summer in the garden 

We vegetables — not flowers- 
Preparing for Thanksgiving, 

Have passed the busy hours. 

Now here is a Potato, 

And here an ear of Corn; 
A Carrot for the table, 

And Lettuce, fresh as morn. 

A Pumpkin for nice pastry, 

And Celery blanched white; 
Tomato round and ruddy, 

And Spinach green and bright. 

Now don't your mouths just water 

To take of each a bite? 
And won't you have for dinner 

A mighty appetite? 

As each vegetable introduces himself in his own par- 



6 THE THANKSGIVING GARDEN 

ticular line, the boys bow with hand on heart, and the 
girls curtsey. 

1. The children walk about in circle for sixteen meas- 
ures, using the same step as when entering, then halt in 
position as for a quadrille, that is, facing inside a square. 

2. The pianist repeats the music an octave higher 
than it is written. The children bow to each other, 
and then dance the right-and-left figure twice around, 
partners meeting with a bow on last measure. To dance 
the right-and-left, each child faces its partner, touching 
right hands. Still facing in the same direction, each 
child continues on around the circle as facing, giving 
left and right hands alternately to those met, that is, 
the girls face in one direction, the boys in another, 
and the two circles interweave, the girls touching hands 
with the boys met. 

3. The pianist plays the waltz as written. Head 
couples walk to center and back, using the same step as 
in entering. Side couples repeat. Each group takes 
eight touch steps in this exercise, four steps toward 
center and four back to position. 

4. The pianist plays the waltz an octave higher than 
written. Children repeat the figures in 2. 

5. The pianist plays the waltz as written. Head 
couples meet at center and cross over, girls passing 
inside, partners turning each other, then crossing back 
to original positions and turning once more. Side 
couples repeat. Children use common walking step. 

6. Repeat 2. 

7. Head couples dance the dos-a-dos movement, that 
is, four steps to center, turn about each other, girls 
inside, back to back, then without tvirning, walk back 
four steps to place. Side couples repeat; then head 



THE THANKSGIVING GARDEN 7 

couples and then side. The children use common walk- 
ing step in this figure. 

8. Repeat 2. 

9. Head girls walk to center, touching right hands 
in passing, turn opposite boys with left hand, cross 
back to place, touching right hands in passing, and 
turn partners. Side girls repeat. 

10. Repeat 2. 

11. Boys repeat 9. 

12. Repeat 2. 

13. Each of the four girls walks to center, clasps 
right hand with opposite girl, and the four circle about 
once, then turn partners twice. Girls repeat a second 
time. 

14. Repeat 2. 

15. Boys repeat 13. 

16. Repeat 2. 

17. Couples circle to the left, using touch step as 
when entering, and gradually exit. 



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